wingspan : 44 mm
Pedaliodes porcia, Amaluza-Jmbura and Gualaceo-Limón roads.
this specimen, collected on the Amaluza-Jimbura road, but on the NW side, looks much more like the Pedaliodes porcia from Sangay NP than like those from the very same road, but on the SE side, and those from Valladolid to Loja.
strictly speaking we know nothing about Pedaliodes porcia, two ssp (the nominal and pallantias), without any geographic data, the gold/yellow HW line being longer and thinner on the nominal ssp
without having any other information we assume that :
- the Yanacocha specimens, the only ones we have with a long and thin gold line, are porcia porcia,
- those from the South of the country belong to an undescribed ssp, with a short and rather thin gold line,
- all the others, from East or West of the Andes, would be pallantias, as we cannot see any geographic differentiation.
